New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-18
KILLED BY FALLING WALLS.
FIVE MEN FOUND DEAD IN THE RUINS.
A HALF-BUILT PAROCHIAL SCHOOL BUILDING TUM
BLEs INTO THE srREET-THE PRIEST WHO WAS
sUPERINrENDrNG THE WORK BARELY Es-
CAPEs WITH HIS MFE-CARELEss

dozen others were injured, several Of them serious
ly. The accident was the result of haste and bad
management Roman Catholic priest. who had
been directing the work to save expense, instead
of having it done under the eye of a competent
builder was among tue injured. Most of tho
workmen were ignorant Italians who had been
hired at random and it POSSIBLE that some of
them were left in the ruins last night. Care
the part of an inspector of buildings might have
prevented the loss of life.
by order Of the Rev. Father Kcrncr OF the
Church of Our Lady OF Mount Carmel, worlSmen
began to build parochial school at No. 430 East
One-hundred and fifteenth ST. about two months
ago. The building TO be five stories bigh
with frontage of twenty five feet and depth OF
nearly hundred feet. Efforts were made to
push the work rapidly and cheaply AbOus
twenty men were at work in the unfinished struc-
ture at 80 p. m. yesterday. The side walls
were up as far as the fourth story ard the rear
wall nearly as high, while the front had not been
raised above tie foundation steam engine
was at work in front of the buling driving
hod elevator Tie floor beams had not been sup
ported properly in the middle, and they shook
every time the elevator went up with its load Of
br clls and mortar.
Finally the unsupported side walls could not
longer bear the strain, and they fell without warn
ing while all the worllmen were busy. woman
who was looking directly into the building from
the window Of house on the opposite side of One
hundred and -ffteenthst. the first quiver OF
tie falling walls. She said that the walls fell
inward at the second and thrl story At the
same moment the floor beams fell, and she saw the
wOrkmen 60 down H. the tangle OF beams and
bricks Only the rear wall and small portions
of the side walls in the remained standing.
KILLING A MAN N AN ADJOINING BUILDING.
There a loud crash that startled everybody
! in the neighborhood. Bricks from the top OF the
west wall crushed the roof Of the frame black
smith shop at No 437 and killed a horseshoer
who was at work there. For few seconds after
the crash the ruins were partly obscured by
cloud of pulverized mortar Through the cloud
few men were seen struggling 10 escape from the
wreck Loud cries from the helpless wounded
men were heard
A great crowd Of excited peo T. soon filed tho
street and for time the work OF rescue was i'm
rcded by the throng. policeman ran to the
s.gnal-box at First-ave. and Onc-hundred-and-
! ffteenthst. and sent out an alarm Of fire. Calls
! for amLuLnces were sent from the same box
little later. HcaIing the alarms, Captain Hooker.
Of the East One hundred-and twenty -siAth-st.
squad, went with hi reserve force of policemen To
scatter the crowd and help the iremen in tho
work of rescue. FIVE companies of nremen, who
ly At first the worllmen VINO in sight were
| card cut Of the ruins
REsCUING FATHER KERNER
Father Kcrner had been discovered and carried
into the office Of Dr. Egan, at No. 43O. before the
iremen arrived. He was on the top floor watch
ing tie bI cll-ayers when the crash occurred
Being near the front of the building he was
pitched nearly into the street and fell on a raft
OF beams near the wrecked he'd elevator. 1t was
supposed at first that both his legs were broken,
as he was helpless and complained of pain in his
limbs DR.. tean found that no bones had been
broken. bat that the PRIEST suffering from
bruises aud Il serious conclusion Of the splne.
The dead body OF John Durliin, brc<layer,
was found not far from the spot where Father
Kerncr fell 1t was carried into a stable on the
opposite side OF the street From the damaged
blacksmith shop the body of Henry Rcmitz. the
horse~hoar who was killed by falling bricks, WAS
carried into orcn shed near the shop. John
Manu. a briclllaycr. was found under some leans
IN the runs and was helped to an ambulance.
His head WAS cut : lousy. Robert Young walked
out Of the wreck with crushed hand. Thomas
kiernan. whose ankle broken, was sent oil
to the Harlem Hospital IN an ambulance with
Robert Levy. lad age fourteen, whose foot had
been cut oil. The lad was bleeding dangerously
when he was taken out of the runs. tiorlen
vino had received bad cut the head, were
put into an ambulance about the same time. Sew
cral men who were bleeding from cuts would not
stay to receive help from the ambulance sur
rcors bat went to their homes. The police did
not get their names
Hnp-CAREIt BURIED IN THE RUINS.
Most of the ho-carriers in the lower
stories and were buried by the beams and bricks.
4 few Of them crawcd out in the rear. where tho
beams were he'll up by the walls that remained
standing Domnck Carter was dug out by tic
ircmen after he had been nearly stiiled by tho
mortar dust lie was hurt seriously and could
not talk, The groans Of other men could he
heard and the rcscucrs toiled with all possible
hnstr to get nearer to the sufferers. John D
Conway, a youth who had fallen near the middle
of the bulling. had escaped serious injury, and
when he drawn out from tang" oi beams
CONF lained only Of II scalp wound.
In the cellar found the body of an Italian.
who's, name was saiI to be Paulo Giberti. lie
hal been crushed into a shapecss mass by tho
tmlcrs Of the first floor. Not far from the spos
where Ii, body lay, the hremcn beard man
praying for help in Italian. They worked until
after . p. m. before they could rescue him. Then
IL was found that he had no bones broken He
walked TO an ambulance alter he had gulped down
a glass of brandy. To a policeman he SAID he was
Giuseppe Turo Of East One hundre d-and-tweliul-
st.
Groans which were plainly heard when the lire
mon BEGAN their WORK beoamc iaInier and at length
ceased Before d o clock the bodies Of two dead
Italians were uncovered anl carried to the stable
ON the south side of the street. One body was
thot of a laborcr named Rosario. The other was
said 10 be that of Glrolrno LAURA of East One
hundred and elevcnthst. At nightiall the work
of hunting for the bodies was discontinued. lt
was believed that no living men we're buried IN
the ruins.
A LIST OF THE DEAD AND INJURED.
From inquiries made by Italians it was sus-
rectcd that two more labOrers had been killed,
and that their bodies had not been found when
darkness stopped the search. The following list
I'D nd niu obtained.